Patrick Shanahan wrote: > Will Yardley wrote: > > Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > > how can I stop squirrelmail/dovecot from changing (N)ew file markers to > > > (O)ld? Or is it possible?
I was about to post this very same question. I am trying to use an IMAPS server with mutt and having the same issue. The backend uses Maildir format files. > > With Maildir, Mutt is considering anything that's been moved from new/ > > to cur/ "old". > > there are no "new/" or "cur/" directories in mbox. AFAIK the file is actually named differently. In one case the file name is cur/1389728033.12522_1.hostname:2, And the other is: cur/1389728033.12522_1.hostname:2,S > > I think if you just do 'unset mark_old' in mutt, it will fix the problem > > (that is, it should keep status '(N)ew'). > > yes, in ~/.muttrc I have: > unset mark_old # i don't care about whether a message is old > > but that keeps "mutt" from marking posts as "old"; squirrelmail still > marks "old" as does the andriod mail clients on my phone. Agreed. I have always "set nomark_old" and while this prevents mutt from automatically marking messages as being old (can still manually mark them as old) all messages are still immediately marked as old regardless when using the IMAP server. Further investigation leads me to believe this is either something in the IMAP protocol or in the dovecot server. If I avoid mutt entirely and use K-9 mail from an Android device to the server the same thing occurs. I am wondering if this is a configuration buried in the dovecot server? Bob
